BAe 146-300 9G-SBC (msn E3183) of Starbow Airlines was ferried to Southend on 3 December for maintenance with Inflite. She departed back to Accra via Algiers on 22 December. She is currently Starbow’s only active 146. The airline also operates an ATR42 and a Q400, both of which are leased. […]
After a protracted development period, Bombardier received Canadian type certification for its CS100 jetliner on 18 December. US and European certification is expected to follow shortly. Both Swiss and Malmö Aviation have ordered the 110-seat CS100 to replace their Avro RJs (former Avro RJ operator airBaltic is another early customer). […]
Former Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight Avro RJ70 M-STRY (msn E1267 ex A6-LIW) was delivered to her new owner, Bernie Ecclestone, the chief executive of the Formula One Group. After attention at Cranfield, she had been ferried to Norwich (via Bern) on 19 November for painting. She was rolled out in […]
Brussels Airlines has announced that it will retire its twelve Avro RJ100s by the end of 2017, returning them off-lease to Falko. The airline had been thought likely to follow the example of other Lufthansa subsidiaries by ordering either Bombardier CSeries or Embraer E-Jets to replace its Avro RJ100s. In […]
BAe 146-200QT G-JEAJ (msn E2099) was broken up at Bacău in early December. She had been the first new QT conversion, making her first flight after conversion to QT configuration in June 2008. She had been ordered by Austrian airline Amerer Air, but the order was cancelled after technical problems […]
Bolivia’s National Tax Service has ordered Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) to pay about BOB100 million (about USD14 million) in back taxes for 2008 and 2009, and has threatened to garnish its revenue sources if it fails to do so. TAM has had a long-running dispute with the tax service over […]
Iranian airline Mahan Air has added another Avro RJ85. The latest addition is RJ85 G-CEIF (msn E2347), which was formerly CityJet’s EI-RJJ. She was returned off-lease to Falko in late October 2014, at which point her previous registration of G-CEIF was restored. After a period of storage at Cranfield, she […]
Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM)‘s BAe 146-200 FAB-103 (msn E2040) has joined the collection of the new Bolivian Air Force Air and Space Museum, at El Alto Airport near La Paz. The museum was inaugurated on 29 October by the country’s vice-president, Álvaro García Linera. FAB-103 is displayed outside, along with several other transport […]
Philipino airline Skyjet is adding BAe 146-100 RP-C5255 (msn E1104) to its fleet. As PK-VTN, she had previously been operated on freight services by Indonesia’s Manunggal Air Service, but had been parked since mid-2013, when Manunggal ceased operations. At some time in 2014 she had been flown to Singapore, where she had […]
Cello Aviation has returned Avro RJ85 G-LENM (msn E2273) to lessor Falko. Cello had been operating her since April 2013, in partnership with Chevron Aviation Services. Unlike Cello’s VIP-configured BAe 146-200, G-RAJJ (msn E2108), she is configured with 82 seats, making her attractive for ACMI work on behalf of other […]
